Category Archives: Martial Arts

MMA Strength and Conditioning Mistakes

I’ve spent a lot of time in the last year or two training MMA type fighters and thinking about what they should be doing. Drawing from my own experience and that of others and experimenting on the guys I train and on myself. I’ve also surveyed the landscape of what passes for strength and conditioning [...]
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Martial Arts Nonsense

There’s a lot of nonsense going around about how the ancient martial artists trained. There always has been bull floating around in the martial arts and fighting communities. It’s a great way to make money to sell people on the hidden-secret-death-strike that will give you invincibility, and super powers all with no physical training. “Who [...]
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Hit Like A Freight Train

You practice martial arts? Or maybe you just want to be able to hit harder when and if its ever necessary. Look no further because the 3 DVD set How to Hit Like a Freight Train is here. Discover the technique to deliver a hard blow. Then build the incredible strength and endurance behind it, [...]
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Hanging Press

This short clip shows you an exercise I’m willing to bet you’ve never seen before. The hanging press is an excellent move for fighters. It engages the whole body as it acts to stabilize in one direction while pushing in the other. Give it a try especially if you train in martial arts. And if [...]
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Short Workouts Tip #3

Even a good part of your conditioning should take very little time. When you have more time, train more but don’t think that limited time can’t be very productive. If you’re reading this site you’ve probably heard what I’ve been doing in training the kettlebell swing in the last year or so. Some really long [...]
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Sandbag Conditioning for MMA

Here’s a little clip of a sandbag conditioning routine that we use with some of our fighters. The main focus is the use of the sandbag, but with some pretty unique exercises. Sandbags are some of the greatest training tools in almost any sport but they especially apply to fighting. Almost nothing else will give [...]
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Adapt, Improvise and Overcome

I believe that’s one of the mottos of the marine corp who recently had their 234th birthday.  Since I just brought that up – congratulations to all of you.  All the marines I’ve known have been good guys and do their corp proud.  Even bigger than that – God bless all the soldiers of the [...]
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Heavy Double Windmill

In this and future videos we’re going to begin showcasing some of the fighters I’ve been training in the last year and some of their training sessions.  This is Derrick Stansberry.  Been training with us for a bit less than a year. Derrick is my kinda’ guy.  Works incredibly hard and
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1000 Sprawls

I got excited! With the website being back up and training going very well I got jacked up the other night and decided to hammer some training. In the last year I’ve taken my conditioning to a whole new level. I’ll be explaining a lot of that to you in the next few weeks and [...]
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